Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — January’s Final Record. [ARTICLE]

January’s Final Record.

The month of Jannary, 1906 ended as it mostly lived, which was unusually mild and pleasant, for the time of year. It is the common custom daring a month of usually Jbad weather to think it .the worst that ever was, aud to think of an unusually fine month as the finest that ever was. Thus the January just passed fine as it was, and highly as it was praised, was not, on the whole, as fine as January 1902. There was a very mild and equable temperature daring nearly that entire month, with only one snow storm, and that not a bad one, and almost no rain at all, and much more sunshine than daring the month just ended. There was, however in the other January, one spell of severe cold, which thi6 Jannary did not have. In January just ended, there was practically no snow here, the earth being bare the entire month, except for a few days along about the middle, when there was an inch of snow, which soon disappearedthere was considerable rain, the total being 2.35 inches. A heavy thunder storm on the 15, an another on thn 17th, were an unnsnal feature, and so also was the extreme heat on the 20th, of 67 degrees. The lowest in the month was 6 above, on the 9th. There were only 8 clear days, 7 partly clear, and 16 wholly cloudy. A not at all favorable record for sunshine.